<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><p class="Default" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 19pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std'; line-height: 31.05pt;"><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Challenges and opportunities for women in Papua New Guinea <br></span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">Friday 18 July 12.30 – 1.30pm</span></p><p class="Default" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 19pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std'; line-height: 31.05pt;"><b style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 12.05pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Speakers</span></b></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 12.05pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std';"><b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Avia Koisen</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 12.05pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std';"><span class="A5" style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt';"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Principal, Koisen Lawyers</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt';"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 12.05pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std';"><b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Emma Wurr</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 12.05pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std';"><span class="A5" style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt';"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Principal Legal Officer for Human Rights, PNG Office of the Public Solicitor<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std';"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 12.05pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std';"><b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Location</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 12.05pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std';"><b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Brindabella Theatre</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt';">Level 2, JG Crawford Building 132 Lennox Crossing, ANU</span><o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 10.55pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 10.55pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt';">Women in Papua New Guinea are chronically under-represented in all levels of government and business and face barriers to achieving a tertiary education. Those who do succeed must navigate a male dominated workforce, while a small formal sector and rising unemployment limit opportunities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 10.55pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt';">This event will bring two prominent female professionals from Papua New Guinea to ANU to speak about their own experiences in this challenging environment and to share ideas on what can be done to increase women’s participation in the workforce, tertiary education and more widely.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 10.55pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt';">The speakers will discuss challenges they have faced working in the public and private sectors and provide insights into the opportunities available to the new generation of Papua New Guinean women.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 10.55pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std';">Avia Koisen </span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt';">is a civil lawyer with more than 18 years’ of experience and is Principal of Koisen Lawyers, her own civil law firm in Port Moresby. Mrs Koisen is also one of the founding members and currently the Interim President of the Papua New Guinea Women’s Chamber of Commerce, established in 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 10.55pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std';">Emma Wurr </span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt';">is Principal Legal Officer for Human Rights at the PNG Office of the Public Solicitor. Ms Wurr graduated with Honours from the University of Papua New Guinea in 2007 and has since held various positions in the Public Solicitor’s Office.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt';">This public lecture is presented by the Development Policy Centre at Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt';">Registration at</span>: <a href="https://crawford.anu.edu.au/events/4349/challenges-and-opportunities-women-papua-new-guinea?#tab" style="color: purple;">https://crawford.anu.edu.au/events/4349/challenges-and-opportunities-women-papua-new-guinea?#tab</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div></body></html>